The Modern Digital Tragedy: Why Dev Teams Fail At User Experience (And What They Can Do About It)
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Developers often fail to make first rate user interfaces. Creating exceptional digital products is not easy. Most development-centered firms focus on technical concerns to the exclusion of usability. As a result, their sites, apps, and software are confusing and difficult to use. They have sacrificed form on the altar of function.
As the competitive landscape increasingly requires more user-friendly products, development teams employ a variety of tactics to improve user interfaces. Unfortunately, these approaches often fail because they don’t address core user experience problems.
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All Posts in This Series
- The Impossible Standard of Digital Product Perfection
- Stop Relying on Process Change to Fix Poor UX
- Feedback From Customers, Users, and Competitors Can Lead Your Dev Team Astray
- Training and Online Help Can’t Fix Poor Digital Product Design
- Pretty Colors and Pictures Won’t Make Your Digital Product’s Experience Any Better
- Why Development-Centered UI Approaches Fail
Written By Dean Schuster
Founder and Owner of truematter
Dean Schuster has been creating human-centered digital products since the beginning of the commercial web. He speaks and teaches user experience all over the world.
About truematter
Frustrating screen experiences are everywhere. You deal with them, we deal with them, our older relatives deal with them, and they make us all want to take a hammer to whatever device we’re using.
Truematter exists to make all of our lives easier any time we have to deal with a website, app, or piece of software. Our team is always thinking about how to improve user experience to help create digital products that are usable, useful, and loved.
